There wasn’t anything else he could say.“My congratulations, thief, on the successful conclusion of your auction.”Thief? Well, it was true enoug.... “How did you hear of the auction? I specifically asked the auction house to exclude Eastern Europe.”Pavlo chortled. It was the over-the-top belly laugh of a man who’d bested a long-hated foe. “Yevgeny Timofeyev or Gene Timms, if you prefer, know this, I am the Silk Road.”Yevgeny’s mind froze; Pavlo knew everything!Inexorably, Pavlo continued. “After. Nice puppy,” he grinned.“Oh it’s not mine,” she deferred politely, surreptitiously trying to kick the irritating pooch away from sniffing her legs and shoes. She held her clutch bag and book after plonking down the fairly heavy bags of fresh produce. Yin had another go at the dog and nearly lost her balance, her sandal having snagged on a nail head in the floor.The book went one way, the clutch the other, and she sprawled to collect them. The tawny mutt had his moment and stuck his snout. It is hard gettingaround in 5 inch heels. But Courtney is making me wear them for another3 months (6 months total) as punishment. I was hand washing herlingerie and I accidentally put a run in her favorite pair of stockings.They were $150 Wolford hose?so I deserved my punishment. Still, it willbe nice to wear lower heels eventually.Courtney had a lot to do with my feminization. The first thing she didwhen I moved in was take away all of my pants. She said a sissy like meshould only wear. You have to be inspired … moved for it … open your third eye … let the beauty come to you … then when it comes, you try as much as you can to seize it and capture it on canvas.” “Wow, that’s nice,” I said, thoroughly impressed. “How long does it take for you to get inspired?” He shrugged. “A day, a week, a month or two … sometimes even a year – it depends. You just have to be patient enough to wait for it.” “That sounds like hard work.” “Yes, it is,” he said. “More than you could ever imagine.”.